Tropes vs. Women in Video Games

tv show

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18 total episodes

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2 seasons

First Aired March 07, 2013

Overview

Tropes vs. Women in Video Games aims to examine limiting, sexist patterns associated with female representations in games, and to illuminate how these patterns reinforce and perpetuate harmful attitudes about women in our culture.

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Lingerie is not Armor

Season 2 - Episode 3 - 0h 0m

Air Date

June 06, 2016

Overview

This episode explores the ways in which female characters are frequently placed in wildly impractical, sexualizing outfits specifically designed to objectify them for the titillation of the presumed straight male player. We then discuss the problems inherent in linking the sexualization of female characters to notions of female empowerment, and examine what positive depictions of female sexuality and sexual desire in games might look like.